Jamshid Momtaz

Jamshid Momtaz (born 18 June 1942 in İzmir) is an Iranian jurist and academic.

He was an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and former member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 2000 until 2006 (president of the same committee at its 57th session in 2005–2006) [2].

He is a Fellow of the Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International) and member of several organizations : As an expert, Jamshid Momtaz was part of the Iranian delegation in charge of nuclear talks with major powers (G5+1) [7] Archived 2015-04-14 at the Wayback Machine.

Dr Momtaz is the author of more than 90 publications including books, chapters in edited works, articles in journals and yearbooks in French, English and Persian on diverse issues of international law.

Introductory note on the Proclamation of Teheran, 1968 in the Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law